• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    If that’s terrorism then what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

    If they want to have a discussion about labels, it’s not gonna go well in front of a jury.

    At every step defense should be asking the jury:

    If you had been killed, would this be happening? Why are lives valued differently

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      19 hours ago

      … what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

      The term I’ve heard for this is social murder:

      … an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

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      18 hours ago

      Social murder. It’s a term originally used by Friedrich Engels nearly 200 years ago, yet still relevant today. Essentially it’s indirect deaths caused by capitalism. Gives some plausible deniability to the likes of United Healthcare because it’s much easier to obfuscate the reason behind somebody’s death when the cause was neglect or denial of life saving care.